What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Specialist position at Mentis Systems?
Role : Infrastructure Specialist
Duration :12 Months
Location: St Louis, MO
PLEASE NOTE:
Local candidates only. This position will sit on-site M-Th; Fridays are remote.
Amount of travel: 25%
The Infrastructure Specialist manages Purina’s manufacturing infrastructure across North America, requiring strong technical and communication skills. This role supports server operating systems, Intel hardware, Windows and Linux operating systems, SAN storage, hypervisor and virtualization solutions across all platforms in the Client environment. The specialist ensures the delivery, availability, and performance of all systems supporting NPPC factory manufacturing environments.
Primary Responsibilities
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to evaluate and design highly available solutions for manufacturing environments.
• Maintain current systems; evaluate, recommend, test, and install new technologies.
• Contribute to strategic technical plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans.
• Implement production, productivity, quality, and customer-service driven systems.
• Resolve problems and determine system improvements.
• Manage projects for major updates and changes, ensuring compliance with Client standards and specifications.
Provide technical expertise in:
- Windows Servers - Clusters and OS
- Hypervisor and virtualization (VMWare)
• - SAN Storage systems
- ThinClients & ThinManager Platform
- GE iFIX, GE Historian, Wonderware, Rockwell suite, Ignition
- Redhat OpenShift and Enterprise Linux platforms
- Backups
- Azure / AWS platform support
• Participate in on-call rotation to support critical factory issues.
• Adhere to Client compliance processes for implementing/upgrading factory solutions.
• Lead the change management lifecycle, ensuring regular testing before production release.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize data and trends in new technologies for storage architecture, capacity, high availability, and response time.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
• Promote process improvement and contribute to team efforts by completing projects and solving problems related to ongoing initiatives.
• Collaborate with factory personnel and other internal/external business partners.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years’ experience, or
• Associate’s degree plus 5 years’ experience, or
• High school diploma/equivalent plus 7 years’ experience in Engineering, IT, or a related technical field.
Experience:
• Hardware Systems Architecture
• Hypervisor Technologies
• SAN Storage Technologies
• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platforms
Skills:
• Experience working on large, cross-functional projects
• Designing, developing, and maintaining manufacturing automation systems and architecture
• Broad understanding of infrastructure hardware, software, and network topologies
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills